Paradise Tithing Office · Photo: Tricia Simpson · CC BY-SA 3.0Paradise has fewer jobs than working residents: 0.2 for each
Measured by household income, Paradise is ahead of 83% of U.S. towns. Paradise has 86 jobs; 498 of its residents have a job. The two grades for Paradise are A− for jobs and income and D for walkability.
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Work in Paradise: the figures worth knowing
Paradise and Logan trade workers both ways
Logan is the top workplace for Paradise residents (23%) and also where the most people who work in Paradise come from (23% of its jobs). The commute map ↓
Paradise is a place people come home to
There are 86 jobs based in Paradise, about two for every ten working residents, so almost everyone works somewhere else. On a workday Paradise has about 650 people in it, 39% fewer than live here. Day and night ↓
Paradise workers spend longer getting to work
The average trip takes 38 minutes each way, against 22 across Utah. Over a year that’s about 291 hours of commuting, 123 more than the state’s typical worker. Time on the road ↓
Written from the Census figures on this page. Commute flows, distances and jobs are Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs only (the self-employed aren’t counted); commute time and working from home are from the Census American Community Survey; with 498 working residents, small shifts move the shares.
How the Jobs & income grade adds up in Paradise
On income, poverty and job access, Paradise is better than 82% of U.S. towns. The poverty rate holds Paradise’s grade up (1.9%, U.S. 12.5%); job access by car pulls it down (ahead of 35% of U.S. towns). It also does well on household income.
Unemployment (2.0%) is left out: Paradise’s labor force is under 1,000, too few workers for a steady figure.
A fairly firm grade. Within the Census margins of error for income and poverty, Paradise could be anywhere from B to A.
23% of working residents work in Logan
Where Paradise clocks in
23% of workers
9% of workers
7% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
In and out of Paradise on a workday
On a workday 494 residents head out to work, 4 work right here, and 82 people come in from elsewhere.
About 650 people are in Paradise on a workday afternoon, 39% fewer than live here.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Time on the road from Paradise: about 38 minutes
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 12 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Paradise workers work from home, vs 18% across Utah. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 252 commuters (the 12% who work from home are left out). Across Utah: 82% drive alone, 2% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Goods, not services: 53% of the jobs in Paradise
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Paradise, 2013 → 2023: 51 → 86. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Paradise’s own residents hold wherever they work.
Paradise’s commute, mile by mile
About 32% show a job over 50 miles away. Some of that is real, and some is employers that report every worker at a head office, so a few long commutes are on paper only.
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
Getting around Paradise: mostly by car
On EPA’s walkability index and the share of commuters who walk, bike or take transit, Paradise is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns. Both inputs place Paradise near the same point nationally.
A firm grade. EPA’s index has no published margin of error; the commuting share comes from a Census survey of 287 workers.
How TownRatings grades walkability →
Transit service: no data. EPA’s transit file has no stops for most of this county (its agencies had not published schedules in the format EPA used in 2020). That is missing data, not a finding that there is no bus or train.
Households without a car (shown, not graded). 0.9% of Paradise households have no vehicle (Utah 4.1%, U.S. 8.4%). 0% of Paradise’s commuters take a bus or train.
Among U.S. towns of 700 to 1,400, Paradise ranks 234th of 3,133 on jobs and income
| # | Town | People | Household income | Poverty | Unemployment | Work in town | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Somerset MD | 1,151 | $250K | 1.9% | 2.3% | <1% | A+ |
| 2 | Bellerose NY | 1,169 | $232K | 1.6% | 6.1% | 1% | A+ |
| 3 | Baxter Estates NY | 1,014 | $154K | 1.0% | 3.1% | 1% | A+ |
| … | |||||||
| 122 | Lake Shore UT | 1,129 | $99K | 0.0% | 20.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 128 | Mantua UT | 1,389 | $142K | 2.4% | 2.1% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 131 | West Mountain UT | 1,282 | $112K | 1.2% | 2.0% | 1% | A |
| … | |||||||
| 232 | Bodega Bay CA | 1,139 | $183K | 2.1% | 18.1% | 10% | A− |
| 233 | Fruitport MI | 1,176 | $84K | 5.0% | 5.1% | 2% | A− |
| 234 | Paradise UT | 1,058 | $110K | 1.9% | 2.0% | 1% | A− |
| 235 | Adams Township OH | 1,013 | $106K | 0.0% | 0.0% | <1% | A− |
| 236 | Oxford Township OH | 1,054 | $90K | 5.3% | 1.5% | 2% | A− |
| … | |||||||
| 3,133 | Oglala SD | 1,071 | $21K | 68.8% | 26.5% | 0% | D− |
Census ACS 2020–24 (income, poverty, unemployment), Census LEHD (work in town), TownRatings Jobs & income grades. Each town links to its Work & commute page.
Ranked on the Jobs & income grade: the towns either side of Paradise, the top three, the last and three more from Utah.
Paradise and its neighbors
Jobs & commute next door
| Town | Paradise workers there | Jobs & income | Walkability | Commute | Household income |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paradise | – | A− | D | 38 min | $109,688 |
| Avon | under 2% | — | — | 47 min | — |
Same-state neighbors only. Avon: fewer than 1,000 residents, not graded. Commute: average minutes each way, Census ACS 2020–24.
Darker towns draw more of Paradise’s workers. Tap a town to see its commute.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Paradise: questions
What is the median household income in Paradise?
$109,688 (±$29,042) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $95,166 across Utah and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Paradise?
1.9%, against 8.5% across Utah and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Paradise?
38 minutes each way on average, against 22 across Utah and 26 nationally. 12% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Paradise work?
1% work in town. The top destinations elsewhere are Logan (23%, 12 mi), Salt Lake City (9%, 55 mi), North Logan (7%, 14 mi) (Census LEHD 2023).
Is Paradise walkable?
Paradise is more walkable than 6% of U.S. towns (Walkability D): an EPA walkability index of 4.8 out of 20, and 0% of commuters walk, bike or take transit.
Can you get around Paradise without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 1% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Paradise, from the people who make the trip.
More of Paradise
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer. Walkability index, job access and transit service: U.S. EPA Smart Location Database. The two grades are our own summaries of these figures, not official ratings.